They don't have a few people in the class who go out to cut the grass every day, and they can only earn eleven or twelve copper coins in a busy day, and the potatoes used to be 2 copper coins a pound, even if they eat with an open stomach, they can save a little money, plus the wages earned by their husbands and sons, the savings will soon increase.

But if the potatoes become back to 17 pounds, let alone save money, it will become very difficult to eat enough.

She didn't even let the children bake the potatoes and eat them, put the potatoes in the only locked box in the house, took the money and hurried out.

She didn't go to buy potatoes, she went to buy brown bread that was cheaper than potatoes.

On days when there are no wild vegetables in winter, most of them are mixed with dried wild vegetables and black bread, and you can eat three minutes full and drink some water to starve to death.

But the days of the previous month were so good that they ate all the dried vegetables and brown bread.

The woman went out to buy black bread, but everyone's situation was similar, they ate it half a month ago, where is there still black bread!

Even if there is, it will not be stupid to take it out and sell it at this time.

The woman asked around, and finally walked to the roadside stall: "How much is a pound of potatoes?" ”

"A pound of small potatoes is 8 copper coins, and a pound of large potatoes is 12."

In half a day, the original price of 2 copper coins of potatoes has increased several times.

But a woman's mood can be much more terrifying than the skyrocketing price of small potatoes!

Her body was almost paralyzed, and she wanted to go home, but after taking two steps, she turned back.

"Give me 3 catties of small potatoes." Her heart was bleeding.

By the time the woman's husband and children returned, the skyrocketing prices had already caused a stir in the city of Colt.

They counted all the savings in their family, a total of 723 copper coins, which they had saved one by one.

The tax revenue in the spring is relatively small, and at this time it is the most green and yellow, and the lords have been able to make a lot of money on food, and the tax will not force them so tightly.

But this high food price still makes people anxious.

The husband counted 500 copper coins and handed them to his eldest son: "Tomorrow I will buy more potatoes and come back, and I can buy as many as I can." ”

There is also a high probability of getting sick in the spring, and if they are not afraid of encountering an accident that costs money, they will definitely take advantage of the fact that the price of potatoes is not so high to buy all the potatoes.

The woman almost fainted from crying: "Woo woo, if only I had saved a little at that time!" ”

Dried wild vegetables don't cost money, dried wild vegetables are actually dried weeds, and for civilians, wild vegetables are weeds that taste better, although they are better, but they are also very limited.

But I can eat it!

From spring onwards, wild herbs are the food ration for most people.

They eat wild vegetables, dried wild vegetables, fresh wild vegetables in spring, summer and autumn, and dried wild vegetables in the winter.

Adding a little brown bread once in a while is already a pleasure.

If you are not diligent in the three seasons of spring, summer and autumn, and do not pick enough wild vegetables to eat more than you eat daily, you will starve to death in winter.

The woman's family is a very diligent person, but they have to eat all winter, and there is no entry in winter, only consumption, and they usually pay attention to it and eat it very carefully.

But isn't this low price that gives them a strong sense of security?

Originally, there was not much left until the last month of winter, and the potatoes of 2 copper coins a pound and the input of at least 16 copper coins a day gave them a sense of security.

Later, after the income rose to 30+ in one day, I was even more hungry for eggs.

Eggs in fresh supermarkets are sold by size, 3 copper coins per piece.

According to their family's income, they can afford to eat ten a day!

The woman not only regretted not stocking up on 2 copper coins a pound of small potatoes at home, but also regretted not buying more eggs.

"I knew that Nini should have bought eggs for her when she said she wanted to eat eggs the day before yesterday!" In the end, I was afraid of poverty, and I hesitated for three days before gritting my teeth and preparing to buy eggs to eat, but I couldn't even afford potatoes!

How much was the price of the day before yesterday!

Sweet sweet potatoes and pumpkins are 3 copper coins a catty, Chinese cabbage 3 copper coins a few catties, small greens 2 copper coins a bundle, tomatoes 4 copper coins a catty, mushrooms 5 copper coins a box...... Even pork costs only 20 copper coins a catty.

The woman was crying, and the husband had a sour nose.

Their working meals in the cafeteria are not bad, with enough rice or noodles, two vegetarian dishes and a bowl of soup, and the occasional stir-fried meat and steamed eggs.

But they are also blessed as workers, and their wives and four younger children, who have no work, only have meat for the dumplings for the New Year.

On this night, few people in Colt City slept soundly.

Betsy didn't sleep well either, his desk was cluttered with papers, and the Energy Potion made him less sleepy, but his level had almost stagnated due to the overload of time during this time.

The head of the fresh food supermarket is reporting on what happened today.

"Are you sure it's the group?"

The person in charge had a serious expression: "Sure!" ”

Betsy dialed a string of magic sigils.

"Lord Joshua, it's me, Betsy, that I have something very important to report to you."

The food problem has always been an important matter of great concern, so on the first day of the riots, the person in charge of the fresh supermarket immediately asked people to investigate.

Betsy was furious, he never expected such a thing to happen.

Raising the price of food was a very common trick for the aristocracy to collect money, because it was impossible for people to go without food.

Betsy is guarding against them! Directly control the sale of grain in his own hands.

Unexpectedly, the nobles were still waiting and watching because of Lancevelly's force, and those commoners with a little money and speculative consciousness organized themselves!

Yes, this increase in food prices was premeditated, and it rarely had nothing to do with the aristocracy.

This time, the price hike in grain prices is obviously prepared.

It wasn't one or two people who planned this event, but a lot of people, at least ten thousand.

A month ago, it was already in action.

They buy goods from fresh supermarkets at wholesale prices, and go to the fresh supermarkets to replenish each time they sell one-half to two-thirds of the goods they bought.

Fresh supermarket is a regional unit to open the agricultural products sales market, can not bring convenience to everyone, there are always some people to walk for a long time in the winter to buy food in the fresh supermarket, very inconvenient.

At this time, the small stall owners helped them a lot.

They set up stalls on various roadsides, promising not to occupy the passage and not causing trouble to traffic, and to set a unified price, so that residents can buy fresh food and vegetables within a few steps.

Profit is the part of the supply and marketing cooperatives that make profits.

For example, potatoes, the wholesale price given by the supply and marketing cooperatives is 100 copper coins and 50 catties of potatoes, some large and some small, they can get at least 25 copper coins of profit when they go back and sort by themselves, such as pumpkins, the profits are higher, as long as they can endure the cold and hardship, it is very simple to set up a stall to earn thirty or forty copper coins a day.

You must know that a brick movers are so tired that they only have 8 copper coins a day!

The fresh food supermarket completely gave up all the profits to them and didn't make a penny.

But the purpose of these people from the beginning was not to set up stalls to make this money!

They want to use the stalls to "domesticate" other people, so that people can change from "going to the fresh supermarket to buy vegetables and buy food" to "going to the stall to sell vegetables and buy food", cultivating customer habits, and quietly emptying the inventory of the fresh supermarket.

During this time, there were many projects started in the spring, and the freight volume of the wind suspension train increased a lot at once, and most of the transportation volume was given priority to those factories, after all, it is the first important thing to let everyone have a job, and the food problem in Xinrong territory is not serious.

So the grain transport list was moved back.

This made the group think that they had seized the time - the stock of the fresh supermarket had been emptied by them!

After all, this group of people has a wide range of information sources, and the warehouse managers of fresh supermarkets also have their people.

——Most of the staff of the fresh supermarket are recruited locally, and the work of the fresh supermarket does not have much technical content, which can completely create jobs for Xinrong territory, and there is no need to recruit people from Lanceville.

The warehouse manager of the fresh supermarket passed on the news to the others, and today they went to the fresh supermarket to empty the last batch of goods as usual.

Of course, the staff of the fresh supermarket reserved the goods to be sold today, but the advantage of the large number of people in the price speculation gang was reflected at this time - some people reduced the inventory of the fresh supermarket to a minimum, and some went in as soon as the store opened to grab all the goods.

When the first real customers come to their door, they see the empty interior of the supermarket.

No matter what time it is, food has a very special significance, and everyone begins to panic when they see that the fresh supermarkets are sold out.

Not to mention that the cashiers and loading workers of the fresh supermarket also have gang members, and as soon as they were incited, everyone's panic immediately exploded.

The small vendors who had stocked up a lot of supplies outside began to increase their prices like crazy.

It's messed up, the whole territory is starting to mess up.

In the end, the public security was even dispatched to maintain order.

"That's pretty much it." After the report, Betsy assured, "We have agreed with the freight company and the agricultural product supply company that all the goods will be distributed to the warehouses of various fresh supermarkets before dawn tomorrow, and the skyrocketing prices will be curbed by noon tomorrow." ”

Why is Betsy sure that there must not be a nobleman's handiwork? The reason is also very simple, this front is too long.

The aristocrats have money and food, so they don't need to start planning from a month ago, just fight a price war, compare the amount of inventory, bankrupt the fresh supermarket, and then re-monopolize the entire market.

But the current aristocracy would not do that.

The reason is also very simple, the nobles are very well-informed, and they know very well how much grain Philos has in his hands - innumerable.

Even if the existing inventory is used up in the price war, a batch can be created immediately.

Let's say, if you want 10 million tons or 100 billion tons, you can give birth to it, this is the confidence of three million transcendentals!

Not to mention that because of the events of the Galt family, the elves from all over the plane gathered together under the order of the elven queen, and they are currently living in Lanceville.

With the current relationship between Lancevelly and the elves, it is very simple to entrust the elves to use tens of thousands of high-level druids to spawn ordinary crops in units of 100 million tons.

The aristocrats are shrewd, not stupid! It's clear that they'll lose money and offend Philos, and they're not going to do it.

Those who can do such things are fools who think they are smart!

Joshua's voice reached the ears of Betsy and the supermarket manager from another dimension, "What are you going to do about this?" ”

Betsy was silent for a moment before she spoke out in detail.

It is false for him to say in his heart that he is not worried.

Although his career as a secretary was a little longer than Joshua's, it was Joshua who taught him more in every way.

Although it is said to be a secretary, the position of the lord's secretary is already special, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is very important.

The lord's office is a veritable center of power, and those who are secretaries are naturally the closest group to the supreme power.

But Betsy was "devolved".

He left that center of power.

Betsy knew very well that he had been tested.